Gillard and Roxon…femifascists:

Free speech is under attack in Australia.
‘THE law that was used to silence Andrew Bolt has been supercharged by the Gillard government’s proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws.
Bolt was found to have breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which says it is unlawful to offend or insult someone on the basis of racial or ethnic characteristics in a public space.
But Attorney-General Nicola Roxon’s proposed changes massively expand the list of characteristics people can be offended by, expanding the jurisdiction into shops, workplaces and sporting clubs.The regime will provide a new weapon in the war on free speech by even including “political opinion” as a ground on which people can be discriminated against.
This extraordinary change makes even innocuous political expressions subject to the law – a person need only be offended or insulted in order to make out a claim. Shop owners displaying signs in support of a political candidate may now be legally discriminating against employees who want the other guy to win…’
Simon Breheny
From: The Australian
November 23, 2012 12:00AM (Reported by Andrew Bolt)UPDATE:
‘THE Australian government is developing new software to monitor citizens’ social media conversations.
…..CSIRO is developing a second social media monitoring tool, called Vizie, which may have far broader political implications.
The software detects and monitors conversation topics – including those which may be politically sensitive – across a range of websites..’

“..bozo young liberals are oblivious of this”
Well of course they are–the Marxist “education” system has done its job, raising generations utterly ignorant of history.
Those with no history can be fed whatever propaganda the government sees fit and they have nothing to check it against.

But, KG, what I don’t understand is why former right-leaning governments, when they were truly right leaning, didn’t pick up on this fact; the fact that if you can control education, you can control power. Even if Abbot gets elected, just like Key, he won’t make the changes to education that are required to bring about political neutrality in education.

Conservative, I think it’s because they are in fact pretty much the same gang, wearing different patches.
What politician, hoping to become part of the next government, will object to the present government grabbing more power and control?
The other aspect of this is the fact that bureaucrats (and teacher’s unions) have enormous, unaccountable power and the very few politicians who’d like to see some semblance of liberty restored would have to take them on.
Sisyphus had it easy…

KG, I taught English in universities in Korea for over 12 years and never saw one bit of propaganda, but when I came back here it was full of it; hense, I have now quit teaching. Yes, I think you are right; the present right-wing governments are one and the same as left-wing. Everywhere I look, the left bribe with candy, and the right cowers. We know this can’t continue, so what will happen?

I think what will happen is the we’ll limp our way towards slavery, Conservative, while the people are distracted by bread and circuses.
Those few who make a stand will be ridiculed, reviled and marginalised by the very people they’re trying to wake up.
Nobody likes to be woken from a pleasant dream…..

Or perhaps individuals will rise up! I personally, think another war is just around the corner, and I don’t think this will necessarily be a world war but country, civil wars between left and right. Left and right used to co-exist, but not anymore.

I think we have to get to the point where businesses are simply sued and shutdown, leaving people jobless and centrelink starved of funds . Where we can’t say shit about anything and then only will we finally wake up.

We seem to be in some sort of weird twilight fantasy world where we will only learn from pain and misery.

I think the vast majority of people are now simply incapable of connecting the dots, RWT.
They live in a fantasy world where–just like a TV program–everything gets neatly resolved at no pain to themselves.
And the last place that will be starved of funds is Centrelink–welfare is the price paid by the productive for (relative) peace and safety, and used by politicians as bribes for votes.

Leftists/”progressives”/socialists are not welcome here. Pay for your own soapbox.

‘I believe that politicians, lawyers, busy-bodies and do-gooders are like salamis- greatly improved by hanging for a time.’ Oswald Bastable

"The loss of freedom is like cancer; it will spread slowly but surely across all parts of society until our liberty has been utterly eaten away and we are left with nothing but a half-forgotten idea of what freedom was."